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The result of our final rehearsal, before we were going to play live, during the wedding ceremony of my sister-in-law.Recorded with my new microphone using Ableton Live and then adding a slight compressor and a subtle reverb, to have some more ambience. Not perfect, but some of the players hadn't touched their instruments for a couple of years.

Acoustic dutch song about sadness, lack of power, frustration and a trauma from the past.

First draft of a re-recording of "Weg" (Away), which was originally recorded in 2000. With better microphone and guitar, now using Ableton Live. But I'm not fully pleased with the drums and the guitar solo right now. A friend once told me that it had something of a Red Hot Chili Peppers song.

Electronic atmosphere piece. Improvised and if I can remember correctly, played on the computer keyboard. Did I mention I like large pad sounds? And filtered drums?

Light poppy electronic piece. Some drums and blings and beeps, with delay effect. And a soft pad melody.

Riff based rock instrumental. Only guitars and a drum loop. It is a good start of a song, without any words.

First Hospital Beats. If I remember correctly, it was created while I was accompagnying my son when he was in hospital for a week. I brought my laptop and a headphone. There is a sweet flute-like melody and syncopated rhythmic patterns. It is quite poppy, but not fully elaborated into a song.

Second hospital beats. Now with a filtered simple drum pattern and a "oh" melody, straight from the eighties and the Art of Noise hits. This one is also quite poppy and has a happy sound.

Electric guitar duet. This instrumental piece is created while I was finishing my PhD. I was experimenting with guitar-amp plug-ins (Devil BVC), to get a more realistic guitar sound. This combined both a regular recording and the emulated amp. The coda includes a small echo experiment.

Playing with the Operator synth in Live. Very simple song, with a voice-like melody and a drumloop. Pils = beer.